Mamali Shafahi b. 1982
Mamali Shafahi (B.1982, lives in Amsterdam and Paris) is a film-maker and video installation artist. His practice, varying from installation to sculpture and film, includes a deep fascination with the impact of emerging technologies on life and art. His early work in France, at the Paris-Cergy school of fine arts, focused on performance. He then produced a number of video installations, and his investigation of relationships between past, present, future and emerging technologies led to the V[i]Rology installation at the Mohsen Gallery, in 2017. From 2014 to 2017 he worked on an experimental docu-fiction film, Nature Morte, involving his parents as both actors and digital characters, screened at Art Rotterdam, in Taiwan and London. In 2019 he made an installation combining his father's drawings with his own installation, sculptures and the film for City Princes/ses at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His VR projects, with Ali Eslami, have featured at Het nieuwe instituut, Rotterdam, the Vancouver Biennale, IDFA film festival in Amsterdam and CPH DOX, Copenhagen.
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Daddy Tissue
Mamali Shafahi 29 Jan - 6 Mar 2022To fully digest the properties of each medium and master the myriad associations a theme might signify, Mamali Shafahi often engages in projects that require years of practice and revisions....Read more -
History Of Fantasy
Group Exhibition Curated by Emmanuelle Luciani 6 May - 12 Jun 2021'History of Fantasy' is a phantasmagorical stroll populated by ghosts, animated by a poisonous magic. It is part of the wake of a new twilight wave, a reminiscence of an...Read more
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DAMN Magazine — Mamali Shafahi
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Art Viewer — History of Fantasy
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Fifty & Me Magazine — Jacopo Pagin
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L'OFFICIEL — Jacopo Pagin and History of Fantasy Exhibition
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DAMN MAGAZINE — History of Fantasy
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See You There — History of Fantasy
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2022
Art Rotterdam 2022 - Everyday Gallery, Booth 84
Daddy Tissue - Everyday Gallery, Anwerpen (Solo show)
2021
Judgment Night: Daddy kills people - Parallel circuit, Tehran (Solo show)
Heirloom Velvet - Liste, Basel (Solo show)
2020
nerd_funk, with Ali Eslami, Impossible Bodies - 's-Hertogenbosch (Solo show)
nerd_funk, with Ali Eslami, Netherlands Film Festival - Utrecht (Solo show)
2019
nerd_funk, with Ali Eslami, CPH DOX - Copenhagen (Solo show)
nerd_funk, with Ali Eslami, IDFA film festival - Amsterdam (Solo show)
nerd_funk, with Ali Eslami, Vancouver Biennale - Vancouver (Solo show)
Sacred hill, with Ali Eslami, Het nieuwe instituut - Rotterdam (Solo show)
Prince.sse.s des villes - curated by Hugo Vitrani and F. Danesi, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (Solo show)
When Legacies become debts - curated by Azar Mahmoudian, Mosaic Rooms, London (Solo show)
2018
Nature Morte - Film screening, curated by Sohrab Kashani, Taiwan Annual
Nature Morte - Film screening, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum, Art Rotterdam
2017
I’m not an Artist, I’m just a heart of coal - MMCA Changdong Residency, Seoul (Solo show)
V (i) R o l o g y - Mohsen Gallery, Tehran (Solo show)
Alternative Facts - Film screening, curated by Myriam Ben Salah, 221A, Vancouver
2015
Centrefold - curated by Reza Aramesh, Sazman-Ab and Ab-Anbar projects, Tehran
2016
The Underworld and its emergent effects - Dastan Basement, Tehran (Solo show)
Skip or the national - curated by Alex Maurice, London
Public Art, Public Spaces; Iran - Curated by Sohrab Kashani, Stanford University CA
2014
Broken SD - Dastan Basement Gallery, Tehran (Solo show)
For Export Only - curated by Narges Hamzianpour, Shulamit Gallery, Los Angeles
2013
Daddy Sperm - Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris (Solo show)
Dixit - curated by Karin Schlageter, Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris
2012
Occidental icons - Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris (Solo show)
Iranian arts now - curated by Amirali Ghasemi, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2011
Good city for dreamers - Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris 2011“With his multiple reflections he feels secure”, curated by Camilo Racana, Cannes
2010
Wonderland (2,500 years celebration) - Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris (Solo show)
I. U. (Heart). - The Third Line, Dubai
2009
Mamali and his doves in art?! - Aaran Gallery, Tehran (Solo show)
Collection Dubai - curated by November Paynter, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Ashura - Aaran gallery, Tehran
2008
Freedom - Performance with Behrouz Rae, Art Athina, Athens (Solo show)
Lion under the Rainbow - curated by Alexandros Georgiou, Athens
Blonde descending a staircase - Video screening, "Urban Jalousie" biennial curated by Amirali Ghasemi, Istanbul and Berlin
2007
Everybody needs a show - Journée de la performance, ENSA Paris-Cergy
(Solo show)
Radical Drawing II - curated by Vahid Sharifian,Tehran Gallery, Tehran
Karaoke Poetry - Performance with Alexandros Georgiou, Athens biennial, Athens
2006
In search of stolen Jesus - Limoges (Solo show)
2005
My magic box - Azad Gallery, Tehran (Solo show)
2004
Eraser Head - 9th biennial of photography of Tehran, Iran
Curatorial Projects
2017
Neïl Beloufa, Argo Factory, Pejman Foundation, Tehran
2014
Urgently, Yesterday - Florian Auer and Katja Novitskova, Mottahedan Projects, Dubai
2012
Recycle - Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar, Etemad Gallery, Tehran
2011
Good city for dreamers - Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris
2010
I. U. (Heart) - The Third Line, Dubai
Residencies and workshops
2019
Vancouver Biennale residency, Vancouver
Townhouse residency, Cairo 2018 Delfina foundation residency, London
2018
Workshop at CPH DOX, Copenhagen
2017
Workshop and residency at ISBA, Besancon
2017
MMCA Changdong Residency, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul
